Some Montreat alumni question college merger

10:10 PM,
Jul. 30, 2013

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Some Montreat College alumni are raising questions about the college's plan to merge with Georgia-based Point University.

"I think the thing that concerns me most is at one time there was a discussion that the (Montreat) board was pursuing partnerships with other schools. That to me is different than mergers. How that changed, I'm not sure," said Stan Plowden, who attended the school in the 1970s. "What prompted the change and why? We've heard nothing about that."

On Monday, Point's president Dean Collins and Montreat's interim president Joe Kirkland met with their staffs and faculties ...